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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Child asylum seekers in UK made to play game about who gets foster care places

Home Office
The Home Office is inquiring into a report by the borders inspectorate about workers’ behaviour towards unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The Home Office has launched an inquiry after staff made unaccompanied asylum-seeking children play a game in which they had to guess who would be the next one to be placed in foster care, a watchdog’s report has disclosed.

The report, one of 13 written by the borders inspectorate and released on Thursday, also found that agency workers employed to look after children as young as nine had received “insufficient” background checks and training.

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